The emergency summit of EU leaders summoned after the deaths of hundreds of migrants fleeing North Africa for Europe is unlikely to produce much of significance, Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, told POLITICO. Schulz called the outlook “poor looking.”

“I’m not so optimistic,” said Schulz, who as head of the Parliament has grudgingly been allowed to take part in European Council meetings.

Speaking at a Brussels event marking the launch of POLITICO in Europe, Schulz was similarly pessimistic about the outcome of Friday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Riga, predicting that “there won’t be an agreement” in the Latvian capital to rescue the increasingly troubled Greek economy. However, he was fairly upbeat about the long term prognosis for Greece, saying that despite general gloom the Brussels technocrats working close to the issue do see some positive trends.

“For the first time, I’m relatively optimistic that Greece will being in a reform program,” he said. Getting the government of Alexis Tsipras, the populist Greek prime minister, to bring in another batch of reforms is a key part of ensuring continued international financial support for the almost bankrupt Greek economy.

The Greeks certainly aren’t yet sweating. Tsipras seemed unruffled by the urgency of the situation and appeared calm, Schulz said, remarking on the Greek leader’s “tieless as usual” attire and apparent lack of stress. “He’s a very relaxed man,” he said.

Schulz’s humor improved when talking about the parliament. The rising significance of the European legislature and its crucial voice in deciding the head of the European Commission has made it indispensable in the Brussels power game. “Once a parliament has acquired an additional right, it’ll never give it up,” he said.

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Europe leadership is so clearly lacking, Our European leaders themselves are tired, un-motivated and appear more often then before sick and tired of the whole thing, ready to give up the burden and rid themselves of the EU pain. Time to bring in new blood, new ideas, new energy. The EU should apply to itself what it endeavours, and very righly so, to force upon others, like the Greek, i.e a profound reform of its structures and decision making system,